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County Cost Group 840 BAH rates

Verified · Effective 2026-01-01 · MHA ZZ840

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E-6 · With dependents
$2,655per month

$31,860 per year · federal tax-free allowance

Official DoD / DTMO rate · CONUS BAH, not an estimate

National position #118 of 338E-6 · with dependents reference
Taxable-pay equivalent$3,404/mo Using the stated 22% comparison rate
Year-over-year change+$222/mo · +9.1%2025 $2,433 → 2026 $2,655
E-6 rate selectedMHA ZZ840 ZIPs 23002 23005 23009 23011 23014 23015 +189
PCS compare County Cost Group 840 · E-6 · with dep. · $2,655/mo
County Cost Group 840 $2,655/mo · $31,860/yr
CURRENT

Pick a station below to see what the move is worth a year, before tax. Orders rarely arrive as one option — add several and rank them.

Comparison uses with-dependents rates. Differences are annual and untaxed. Rate protection is not applied — a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.

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Rate history

How updates work
2025$2,433
2026$2,655

Verified official history. With-dependents rate shown; use the dependency switch above for its exact comparison.

COUNTY COST GROUP

This is not one installation. DTMO groups counties without a dedicated base into a "County Cost Group". The rate applies to any member whose duty location falls in one of the ZIP codes listed above.

County Cost Group 840 — full sheet Tap a row

What this rate means

E-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco $5,454
Rome $2,739
Bremerton $2,730
Charlottesville $2,715
Corvallis $2,715
Dahlgren $2,715
Atlanta $2,709
Milwaukee $2,700
Coastal Maine $2,697
Reno $2,679
Nashville $2,673
County Cost Group 840 $2,655
St. Louis $2,655
Savannah $2,652
Knoxville $2,649
Richmond $2,628
Charleston $2,616
Pittsburgh $2,604
Detroit $2,583
County Cost Group 830 $2,580
Asheville $2,571
Elizabeth City $2,562
Youngstown $1,335

County Cost Group 840 is #118 of 338. The spread between the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month — $49,428 a year, untaxed.

Every pay grade at County Cost Group 8400 – $3,510 / month
E-1 $2,166
E-2 $2,166
E-3 $2,166
E-4 $2,166
E-5 $2,322
E-6 $2,655
E-7 $2,745
E-8 $2,844
E-9 $2,997
W-1 $2,673
W-2 $2,787
W-3 $2,910
W-4 $3,030
W-5 $3,180
O-1E $2,760
O-2E $2,889
O-3E $3,051
O-1 $2,367
O-2 $2,652
O-3 $2,907
O-4 $3,225
O-5 $3,459
O-6 $3,486
O-7 $3,510

The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.

Moving from County Cost Group 840 to San Francisco at E-6 is worth $2,799 a month — about 31 promotions at this grade. Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.

What the rate table does not tell you

01

“With dependents” is a dependency status, not a marital status. A single member paying child support can be authorized BAH-Diff; a married dual-military couple with no children is not automatically the with-dependents rate for both. If your situation is unusual, your finance office decides — not this table.

02

O-8, O-9 and O-10 draw the same BAH as O-7. The table stops there for a reason, not because it is missing rows.

03

This is CONUS BAH only. Overseas is OHA, which works differently — it reimburses actual rent up to a cap, with separate utility and move-in allowances. Alaska and Hawaii are BAH; Germany, Japan and Korea are OHA.

Source: DoD Defense Travel Management Office, effective 01 JAN 2026. How these rates are sourced and checked.

Source record

Where these numbers come from

Official fields remain unchanged. Years are aligned by DTMO's MHA code; no missing value is interpolated.

2026 official releaseDTMO source archive
Effective
2026-01-01
Retrieved
2026-09-05
Last verified
2026-09-07
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2025 official releaseDTMO source archive
Effective
2025-01-01
Retrieved
2026-09-07
Last verified
2026-09-07
SHA-256
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